| List of figures | |
| List of tables | |
| List of contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Pt. I | Introduction | 1 |
| 1 | Community participation and geographic information systems | 3 |
| 2 | Surveying the extent of PPGIS practice in the United States | 17 |
| 3 | Models for making GIS available to community organizations: dimensions of difference and appropriateness | 37 |
| Pt. II | PPGIS case studies | 53 |
| 4 | A voice that could not be ignored: community GIS and gentrification battles in San Francisco | 55 |
| 5 | Mapping Philadelphia's neighbourhoods | 65 |
| 6 | The impacts of GIS use for neighbourhood revitalization in Minneapolis | 77 |
| 7 | The Atlanta Project: reflections on PPGIS practice | 89 |
| 8 | Web-based PPGIS in the United Kingdom | 101 |
| 9 | GIS-enhanced land-use planning | 113 |
| 10 | Portland Metro's dream for public involvement | 125 |
| 11 | A community-based and collaborative GIS joint venture in rural Australia | 137 |
| 12 | Geographic information systems in the environmental movement | 153 |
| 13 | There must be a catch: participatory GIS in a Newfoundland fishing community | 173 |
| 14 | Environmental NGOs and community access to technology as a force for change | 192 |
| 15 | Mexican and Canadian case studies of community-based spatial information management for biodiversity conservation | 205 |
| 16 | Promoting local community participation in forest management through a PPGIS application in Southern Ghana | 218 |
| 17 | GIS for community forestry user groups in Nepal: putting people before the technology | 232 |
| 18 | Implementing a community-integrated GIS: perspectives from South African fieldwork | 246 |
| 19 | Information technologies, PPGIS, and advocacy: globalization of resistance to industrial shrimp farming | 259 |
| 20 | Ensuring access to GIS for marginal societies | 270 |
| 21 | The Cherokee Nation and tribal uses of GIS | 283 |
| Pt. III | PPGIS futures | 295 |
| 22 | Mutualism in strengthening GIS technologies and democratic principles: perspectives from a GIS software vendor | 297 |
| 23 | Spatial multimedia representations to support community participation | 309 |
| 24 | GIS and the artist: shaping the image of a neighbourhood through participatory environmental design | 320 |
| 25 | A praxis of public participation GIS and visualization | 330 |
| 26 | A model for evaluating public participation GIS | 346 |
| 27 | Public participation, technological discourses and the scale of GIS | 357 |
| 28 | Conclusion | 367 |
| Index | 373 |